On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
she's willing
to at least entertain the notion of linux,
Excellent!
as she needs little more than surfing/email/MS office functionality.
"The best distro for newbies is the one that comes with an expert to help
them out."
I totally agree.
If "MS office functionality" is important you might consider which
version of LibrOffice your choice of distro comes with.
I do not know how versions vary between distro releases. In the past,
however, I had to run a newer version of Ubuntu in a VM to get a version
of LibreOffice which supported more columns in calc which I needed, for
example. (I usually run LTS).
Also, as this is for a laptop, so you might want to check that your choice
of distro has good 'agile network support' if the laptop is going to be
chnaging to different networks frequently. (They may all be good these
days, I don't distro-hop much anymore so don't know.)
If she has not been operating a browser with good ad-blocking capability
you might want to install that in your choice of browser before hand-over
so she gets this immediate, positive impression of 'Linux' - even though
it's just the app :-)
Be sure to use a distro with systemd so the laptop boots fast ;-)
Brett
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